On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 6:38 PM, James Allsopp <jamesaalls...@googlemail.com>wrote:
> I actually realised what I was doing wrong. The ath5k module came with the > fedora kernel, but I've blacklisted it, and now and got the madwifi drivers > installed. I can now get the device into master with the correct ssid, but > can't get ath0 to accept an ip address. > > I tried to use ath5k, but need the 0.6 version of hostapd. There doesn't > appear to be a rpm in any repository for this recently version. I don't want > to leave my system in a mess by installing it manually, hence returning to > madwifi. > > Also I believe one of the users in this thread said that they couldn't get > ath5k working as an ap, whereas I've had madwifi working as an ap before. > > If anyone can show me the location of a 0.6 hostapd rpm, I'll try ath5k. > > James > > > > 2009/12/4 Lonni J Friedman <netll...@gmail.com> > > On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:44 AM, John W. Linville <linvi...@redhat.com> >> wrote: >> > On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 04:17:18PM +0000, James Allsopp wrote: >> > >> >> I'm running Fedora 12, and was wondering if anyone knew of a repository >> >> which contains one of hte old atheros drivers. I want to get rid of >> ath5k as >> >> it doesn't seem to have a good reputation, sounds very experimental >> still, >> >> and I can't make an access point with it without a hostapd0.6 rpm. >> > >> > Did you actually try ath5k? Is obtaining a later hostapd really a >> > bigger hardship than using an unmaintained, out-of-tree driver? >> > >> > If you have specific problems with ath5k then please cite them. >> > Even better, open a bugzilla entry for them. But please don't just >> > spread random FUD. >> > >> > Madwifi is a dead project. It does support a few oddball features >> > (many of them non-standard) that some people need, mostly due to >> > legacy use of Madwifi. If you won't know what those are or why you >> > need them, then you almost certainly should be using ath5k. >> > >> >> I should add that madwifi doesn't even work in F12 (possibly F11 too, >> but I've not tried). When I was having issues with ath9k, I actually >> attempted to switch to madwifi out of desperation, and the kernel >> modules wouldn't even load (when built from source). Tons of missing >> symbols. >> >> Seriously, if you think problems with athXk are annoying, try getting >> problems fixed with madwifi when its not even maintained and is likely >> to not work at any time. >> >> It works fine for me in F11 using ndiswrapper from ATrpms and the windows driver. -- Paulo Roma Cavalcanti LCG - UFRJ
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